# “Christ gives more than sin stole” by Herman Bavinck

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- Published: 2017-11-27T12:00:04-06:00
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“When the kingdom has fully come, Christ will hand it over to God the Father. The
original order will be restored.

But not naturally, as if nothing had ever happened, as if sin had never existed 
and the revelation of God’s grace in Christ had never occurred. Christ gives more
than sin stole; grace was made much more to abound.

He does not simply restore us to the _status integritatis_ [state of righteousness]
of Adam; he makes us, by faith, participants of the _non posse peccare_ [being unable
to sin] (1 John 3:9) and of the _non posse mori_ [being unable to die] (John 11:
25).

Adam does not again receive the place which he lost by sin. The first man was of
the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. Just as we have born 
the image of the earthy, so too after the resurrection shall we bear the image of
the heavenly man (1 Cor. 15:45-49).

A new song will be sung in heaven (Rev. 5:9, 10), but the original order of creation
will remain, at least to the extent that all distinctions of nature and grace will
once and for all be done away with.

Dualism will cease. Grace does not remain outside or above or beside nature but 
rather permeates and wholly renews it. And thus nature, reborn by grace, will be
brought to its highest revelation.

That situation will again return in which we serve God freely and happily, without
compulsion or fear, simply out of love.”

–Herman Bavinck, “[Common Grace](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj3hO_5_9nXAhUSkeAKHdyUDyMQFggmMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbavinckinstitute.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F08%2FHerman-Bavinck-Common-Grace.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2peC6yIkgkeky-3H8wgHvL),”
trans. Ray VanLeeuwen, [_Calvin Theological Journal 24_](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj3hO_5_9nXAhUSkeAKHdyUDyMQFggmMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbavinckinstitute.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F08%2FHerman-Bavinck-Common-Grace.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2peC6yIkgkeky-3H8wgHvL)(
1988): 59-60.

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